A short article to provide the lay (non-medical) reader with an understanding of sensitivity and specificity under the main page heading of ‘Literature’.
Research: Sleep & Traumatic Events
Disrupted sleep shortly after performing rescue and clean-up operations following traumatic events is associated with poor physical health 12 months later. After adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, and initial distress levels, researchers found that early complaints about sleep quality were associated with more physical symptoms, poorer perceived health, and increased use of healthcare… Read More
Research: Students, Binge Drinking & the Military
Students who binge drink are more likely than others to join the United States Military. Responses of more than 14,000 high school students in their final year were sought in the 2008 Monitoring the Future survey. Results indicated that those students who intended to join the military after leaving school were significantly more likely to… Read More
Seven ways to keep your Job!
The top tips for helping you get on are: Keep your skills and knowledge up to date; Get on with your colleagues; Have integrity; Use your initiative; Deliver; Ditch the attitude of entitlement; and Don’t be self-centered. On the whole I agree with the above seven tips and the reasoning behind them. Use the link… Read More
Research: TV & Sleepy Time
Watching television before bedtime is the most influential factor in determing how late children go to sleep. With a use-of-time approach to investigate what children aged five to 18 years were doing 90 minutes before bedtime, researchers found that screen sedentary time dominated the period before sleep, and was associated with later sleep onset. Most… Read More
Research: Multi-vitamin Use & Risk of Death
In the wake of epidemiological findings suggesting that multi-vitamin use increases the risk of death, a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of supplements – used for the primary or secondary prevention of a range of diseases – reports more positive news. Among independently living adults (average age 62 years; average duration of supplementation 43 months),… Read More
Research: Optimism & Pain Sensitivity
A causal link between optimisim and lowered sensitivity to pain has demonstrated in a novel experiment that involved manipulating university students into a temporary optimisitc state (by writing about and visualising a future best possible self) and subjecting them to a cold pressor test to induc pain (involving the immersion of the non-dominant hand in… Read More
Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute 